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Re: midi omits one instrument in full score


From: Martin Tarenskeen
Subject: Re: midi omits one instrument in full score
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 19:10:58 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 02:36:17PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> > Hi again. I did some more work and found that "viola" and "vibraphone" are
> > silent while "voice oohs", "glockenspiel", and "violin" (and default
> > acoustic grand) play ok.
> 

> I tried it on my computer.
> E.g. for the "timidity" midi player, the vibraphone is absent, while with
> "fluidsynth" it's there.
> 
> As a workaround, for "timidity", you can modify its configuration file; when
> you see the following message in the output:
> ---
> No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 11 - this instrument will not be 
> heard
> ---
> then you can create an appropriate line in "/etc/timidity/freepats.cfg"
> which would reference one of the existing "patch" (i.e. sound) file. [Of
> course, you still won't have the sound of the "vibraphone", but at least you
> can keep the reference to the correct midi instrument in the Lilypond file.]

If you can hear the vibraphone in fluidsynth but not in timidity, you 
can edit the cfg file that timidity is using to include the vibraphone 
sound from the soundfont that fluidsynth is apparently using. This can 
be done, no problem.

-- 

Martin Tarenskeen





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